Barack Obama, spendthrift

From 1789 to 2008, the United States government borrowed a total of $5.8 trillion.  (That’s every administration up to, but not including, Barack Obama’s.)

Now sadly, we’re an increasingly innumerate nation, and for too many people one word ending in -illion is rather like any other, so I’m also going to write that out:  that’s $5,800,000,000,000.

With me?  Okay.

Now, in just the first three years of the Obama administration, the United States government is set to borrow $4.4 trillion.  That’s $4,400,000,000,000.

Please read An Obama-Sized Government at National Review Online today.  Be sure to look back at this post of mine as well, when we were talking about “only” $3,500,000,000,000.

Hey, how about a howler from all the way back in November 2008?

“We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.” – Barack Obama

I wonder how that’s going?

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